On Freitag 12 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/12/2009 07:58 PM, Beso wrote: > > finally, 4.3 will mark the removal of my old 3.5 installation. i think > > that for about 90% of people will be finally able to switch entirely to > > kde4. The apps are now mostly complete and the 3.5 apps that are still > > maintained have now been ported; plasma is ok and quite customizable, > > the backends are working well, with the exception of pulseaudio that is > > now having some problems with the phonon backend when used in conjuction > > with flash and old apps that lock directly the physical card, but i > > suspect that this is due to some configuration issue. > > If you don't need networked sound, you can uninstall pulseaudio and alsa > and use oss4 (there's an ebuild). I did that and old programs who want > exclusive access to /dev/dsp work OK without locking the sound. KDE 4 > works fine with using Xine backend. This will need putting "-alsa oss" > in make.conf though and a rebuild of all packages that use those flags.
hm, I never met an app that blocked /dev/dsp cpmpletly in the last couple of years, could you name an example?
